2953. 'Even so, please hear me' means an interior influx. This becomes clear from the dialogue that took place - 'Abraham spoke to Ephron' meaning an influx, as stated just above in 2951. Here the dialogue continues, Ephron's interest being aroused by Abraham's saying, 'Even so, please hear me', by which an interior influx is therefore meant. The internal sense is such that the expressions and words are in themselves scarcely anything at all. Rather, the meaning they carry, flowing from the train of thought, leads to ideas, and indeed with angels to spiritual ideas - which the external or literal sense serves as the object from which those ideas can be grasped. For it is the ideas comprising man's thought that serve as the objects which angels need for spiritual thoughts, especially those ideas comprising his thought which primarily are obtained from the Word. For all things described in the Word are representative, and every single expression carries a spiritual meaning. And angels are instantly aware that those images come from the Word, because spiritual and celestial things in the Word follow one after another in a perfectly ordered sequence, holding that which is holy within them by virtue of the inmost sense which has to do solely with the Lord and His kingdom.

2951. 'And he spoke to Ephron' means an influx with those who were able to receive it. This is clear from the meaning of 'speaking' as thinking, 2271, 2287, also willing, 2626, and so as flowing in, for that is how influx is effected; and from the representation of 'Ephron' as those with whom the truth and good of faith could be received, dealt with in 2933.